CHAPTER 1 BIRTH

CHAPTER 2 FAMILY AND FRIENDS

CHAPTER 3 VILLAGE

CHAPTER 4 A LONELY DINING TABLE

CHAPTER 5 A NEW BROTHER

CHAPTER 6 THE DIVINE TRIAD

CHAPTER 7 A NEW REVELATION

CHAPTER 8: Lost stories of the Kingdom

CHAPTER 9: LOSS

CHAPTER 10: NEW BEGINNING

 CHAPTER 11: DREAM COME TRUE

&lt;p&gt;SOMARIA REVISITED, CHAPTER 1 BIRTH 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ Oh dear god won’t you forgive us and wash away our sins with your crimson rain . We ask for your protection and your blessings on this rainy day. We shall worship you as our god and leave nothing for you to dismay. When all things come to and end by your fury, oh who shall protect us on this crimson day.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MESOPOTAMIA.  A land far away that is held between the two rivers the Tigers and the Euphrates. The land that has held many kings and god’s before. Also the land that first invented writing and math. You would think that a land as advanced as this would have intelligent people in it. WRONG, Mesopotamia is ruled by the king Dumuzi. A vile creature that’s only interested by women, And whine. He doesn’t even give a smithereen Of empathy towards his land and subjects. The people on the other hand are like sheep led by wolves. They’re ignorant to everything that’s going around them or rather they’re just pretending not to feel anything. Well this act of negligence shall cost them everything in the near future. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While there are bad people that are in Mesopotamia there are also the good people. The father of law Hammurabi. The person who created the first stone tablet to contain laws that were used to rule Mesopotamia until this day. He was a wise king and he cared for his people. Unfortunately he died way earlier on before the rule of dumuzi.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In one of the rural villages on the outskirts of Uruk lays a village hidden in dormant from the rest of the world. In that village on a top of a big hill lies a house that was going to witness the creation of the world’s biggest threat.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“PUSH CLARA PUSH, YOU CAN DO IT CLARA JUST TRY HARD ENOUGH “ 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Says a villager named Ann to his wife Clara as she was giving birth to their child. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The sky on that day was gloomy and filled with thundering fury. Purple lightning could be seen everywhere across the kingdom. Most people who have witnessed this storm thought that divine punishment was brought in by the gods to vent out their anger.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clara’s screams could be heard down the hill as she was painstakingly trying to give birth to her child.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ JUST THIS ONE BIT MORE CLARA COME ON I CAN ALREADY SEE HIS HEAD.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clara went ahead and pushed as hard as she could and after that she fainted.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When she woke the first thing she heard was the whaling and crying of a new born baby. She looked at her loving husband and in his arms were her new born son.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ give him to me Ann I want to see him, I want to see my baby boy.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clara looked at her son and she was struck with awe. She hadn’t seen a creature this beautiful in her whole life. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her baby had blond hair with green eyes just like her. With his skin as pale as snow and his body was as healthy as they come.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ Alright now you can’t be hogging him all for your own, it’s time for you to share the prize with your husband Clara”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Said Ann jokingly while looking at Clara’s smile.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clara handed her son to Ann and he held him in his hands and played with him for a little bit.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ how can a baby be so cute even though he’s still covered in all this blood.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ you should probably go ahead and get a wet towel to clean him Ann” 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ yeah sorry, I forgot to do that since I was worried for you after you fainted.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ann put his child in his cradle and went ahead to get a wet towel from the bathroom.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ALL OF A SUDDEN ANN HEARS A THUNDERING SOUND THAT WAS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY CLARA SCREAMING.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ann immediately dropped the towel from his hands and rushed to see what was going on in the living room where Clara and his Child were at.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And to his surprise he witnessed a scene so shocking that it put him in a daze. 
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lightning had come baring it’s fangs as it broke through their celling and straight onto their child’s cradle.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ann stood there in shock from what was happening unable to move a muscle or even say anything. he just stood there by whatever that remained of the cradle watching as the flames burned. Clara could be heard in the background screaming as if her soul was taken away from her.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“MY BABY!!. PLEASE DONT TAKE MY BABY AWAY FROM ME IM BEGGING YOU. GOD PLEASE.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Said Clara while she was crying her heart out.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ann quickly got back to his senses and ran to the bathroom to get a bucket of water to turn off the fire.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He ran as fast as he could and grabbed the bucket filled it with water and ran straight back to the living room.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ann sprayed the cradle with 2 buckets of water but the flames were not planning to die out. In the end Ann gave up on everything and decided to walk straight into the fire to save what had remained of his poor oh poor child.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ NO DONT DO IT ANN. YOU’LL DIE TOO, I CAN’T HANDLE IT, I WON’T BE ABLE TO LIVE ON ANYMORE IF I LOSE BOTH OF MY HUSBAND AND MY CHILD AT THE SAME DAY !”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ann didn’t listen to what Clara had to say and he ran straight into the fire.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After 10 seconds of pure silence with nothing but the sound of the scorching flames, to Clara’s surprise Ann had come out from the fire with his clothes all burned down and a ragged cloth in his hands.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ann looked at Clara filled with burn marks on his face and handed her the burned cloth.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clara looked at the piece of wool cloth in her hands and to her surprise she found her son laying there unscathed without any care in the world. He was even smiling at the time.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clara began crying tears of joy at the sight she had just witnessed. She began laughing and thanking the gods for all the blessings they had brought upon her and her family.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But after a second inspection she found out that he wasn’t completely fine and unscathed as she thought. Her son had actually changed his hair colour from all of the burning flames so it turned from blonde into black. The same thing also happened to his skin colour but to a lesser  degree since he came out more light skin  than anything.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She still looked at her baby boy with the biggest smile on her face, the face of a proud mother.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clara looked at Ann and asked him.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“  Ah Ann what shall we name our baby boy.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ I was thinking of naming him something but after seeing what he has just gone through I’m starting to think of a different name than the one I originally had.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ We need a brave name since our son had gone through so much and he is even less than an hour old”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Said Clara while chuckling.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ How about we name him Gilgamesh after the ancient king with the same name, don’t you think it’s fitting. Since he’s already so young yet he braved through such crises.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ Gilgamesh huh?.. yeah that name sounds lovely!”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clara looked down at Gilgamesh and said.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“ Gil. That’s your name from now on. I’m sure you’re destined to do great things my boy. I can’t wait to see them with you.”
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&lt;p&gt;SOMARIA is a tale set in the lands of Mesopotamia the land of the gods. Our tale follows Gilgamesh as he ventures out in the world seeking the cure of immortality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will Gilgamesh fail his journey and return back home empty handed or will he prevail and regain all that he has lost before.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(This is a revisited version of my novel so I'm re writing it from ground zero have fun reading it again for the old readers.)&lt;/p&gt;

SOMARIA (REVISITED)